[Noisebridge-discuss] [dorkbotsf-blabber] MCU > 80MHz, low pincount, power saving?

[Andy Isaacson]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:28:10PM -0800, Joe Grand wrote:
> Check out Parallax's Propeller. May be too expensive depending on what you're doing, but it meets the specs (except DMA):
> 
> http://www.parallax.com/propeller/
> 
> I used one in my Laser Range Finder
> (http://www.grandideastudio.com/portfolio/laser-range-finder/)  It was
> a bit of a learning curve, but ultimately very powerful and cool. 

@scanlime also used a Propeller for a similar scale project:
http://scanlime.org/2011/04/spdif-digital-audio-on-a-microcontroller/

Not too much there about the GPIOs, but I found the discussion of system
architecture for high speed IO very enlightening.

-andy